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Stephanie Cutter: OFA can ‘affect’ elections

Stephanie Cutter, who was President Barack Obama’s deputy campaign manager, said on Sunday that the next iteration of his grass-roots group has the power to “affect” elections.

“This particular organization, the way it’s organized, legally, we can’t participate in elections,” Cutter said of Organizing for Action, a new advocacy group that builds on the Obama campaign’s Organizing for America. “That doesn’t mean that the issues we’re organizing around won’t mobilize the American people to vote for things. To vote for that economy we’ve been working toward, to vote for immigration reform… I think we can affect elections even if legally we can’t be involved with them for this particular organization.”